New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1917. First edition. Small 8vo, frontispiece, 121pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. First book, a collection of modernist poems, by the woman who would become a pioneer and longtime promoter of the Canadian film industry as a writer, theater manager, and longtime editor of..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, 118pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. Inscribed by the poet in 1959 to a close friend, and with a touching typed letter signed by Foster (using her given name "Julie") laid in along with an original typescript of her poem "Boris..... More
New York: Liveright, Inc, (1932). First American edition. 8vo, 288pp; black cloth. The English edition had the title "The Murderer" and the penname William Morton. Dust jacket design by Sugar. More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1939). First edition. 8vo, 407pp; red cloth. Author's first novel. More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 354pp; black cloth stamped in gilt and mint green. Compendium of international true crime stories by the Russian-born author of several mysteries and thrillers. Uncommon in jacket. More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1935). First edition. 8vo, 224pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and with printed label on front. Depression-era sexist humor in the form of an epistolary novel. The author, an itinerant scribbler and sometime actor, became a Coughlinite propagandist and backer of Hitler. He..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First American edition. 8vo, 253pp; gray cloth, pictorial endpapers. Melodramatic novel of the debauchery of a young woman. Reck-Malleczewen was a popular writer who ran afoul of the Nazi regime, which he vehemently opposed. He died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First American edition. 8vo, 336pp; purple cloth. A popular novelist in his time, Reck-Malleczewen was an outspoken opponent of Hitler. In the 1930s, his books were banned in Germany and he himself was arrested and died in the Dachau concentration camp. A lovely copy, in..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American edition. 8vo, 303pp; black textured cloth stamped in green. Apparently the only novel by this Armenian-born British writer, who also had a couple of plays to his credit but who leaves otherwise virtually no trace. Attractive dust jacket art signed "Darcy" More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). First American edition. 8vo, 348pp; black cloth. Principal novel by the war hero and Zionist leader who was also a prolific writer. Uncommon in the dust jacket, with its artwork by Irving Politzer. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First American edition. 8vo, 255pp; drab gray cloth with printed spine label. A portrait of Poland and the eastern European states in the aftermath of the First World War. The author was foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian and author of several books about..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. Small 8vo, 135pp; cloth-backed boards. Poems by the promising young writer who would go to Hollywood and find success as a screenwriter before his premature death at forty-one. Scarce in jacket. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. First American edition. 8vo, 89pp, errata slip tipped in; stiff card boards with printed label on front cover only. Book of poems by the prolific English journalist and novelist. This edition made up from sheets of the London edition, published by G. Allen Unwin..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First American edition. Small 8vo, 159pp; cloth-backed boards. Fourth volume in the publisher's short-lived "Penguin" serties. Very uncommon in jacket. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 8vo, 218pp; black cloth stamped in gilt on dark blue. A story in dramatic form by the prolific author of pulps and fantastic fiction. Abdullah himself was a character of some intrigue and perhaps fantasy. His own unconfirmed account of his life was..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 301pp; dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Memoir of a New York State Senator and longtime fixture in the state's Democratic party. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf: "To Hon. Harry B. Chambers, In token of friendship and esteem..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1925). First edition. 8vo, [319]pp, patterned endpapers; black cloth with decorative purple stamping on spine. A once well-regarded and now forgotten book by a once well-regarded and now forgotten writer. A contemporary reviewer compared Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, published in the same year, to this book..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 8vo, 327pp; pale gray cloth stamped in black. The author, who was a pro-German propagandist during the First World War (he would later become an American defender of Hitler), writes a lengthy account of allied anti-German propaganda. The author of the foreword had..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 395pp; beige cloth stamped in gilt and burgundy. A sort of autobiography combining self-analysis, verse, and confession. The author, a popular writer of science fiction, among other things, was a pre-German propagandist during the First World War and a supporter of Hitler..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First American edition. 8vo, 448pp; black cloth. U.S. edition made from sheets from the English publication, with a cancel title page and a page of British press-quotes bound in at rear. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 306pp; black cloth. McAdoo, chief magistrate of the City of New York, compiled this volume from original sources documenting several "notorious public characters, murderers, traitors, pirates, mutineers, incendiaries, defrauders, rioters, forgers, highwaymen, footpads, pickpockets, swindlers, receivers, and extortioners," as given in..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 205pp, illus.; gray cloth. A book-length narrative poem, chronicling the lives of a midwestern family from 1800 through the Civil War and into the modern era. Illustrated with an excellent series of art deco wood engravings by H.R. Bishop... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, frontispiece, 277pp, illustrated; green cloth stamped in gilt. A social and psychological history of hair by the inventor of the "permanent wave." The unsigned dust jacket design features a wonderful streamlined-moderne image of a head of long, flowing blonde locks. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First American edition. 8vo, 251pp; terracotta cloth. Exposé on South American sex-trafficking by an inventor of modern investigative journalism. Londres was an adventurous reporter, travelling the world and uncovering a variety of scandals and untold stories on topics ranging from the penal colonies in..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, 255pp; red cloth. The first in the publisher's short-lived "Red and Green Mystery-Detective Series" selected by Carolyn Wells. The foredge was stained red, the top and bottom edges green, though both have become discolored; the dust jacket was designed by Hans..... More